An edition of The return of Captain John Emmett (2011)

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An edition of The return of Captain John Emmett (2011)

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  1. The Great War has been over for two years, and it has left a very different world from the Edwardian certainties of 1914. Following the death of his wife and baby and his experiences on the Western Front, Laurence Bartram has become something of a recluse. Yet death and the aftermath of the conflict continue to cast a pall over peacetime England, and when a young woman he once knew persuades him to look into events that apparently led her brother, John Emmett, to kill himself, Laurence is forced to revisit the darkest parts of the war. As Laurence unravels the connections between Captain Emmett's suicide, a group of war poets, a bitter regimental feud and a hidden love affair, more disquieting deaths are exposed. Even at the moment Laurence begins to live again, it dawns on him that nothing is as it seems, and that even those closest to him have their secrets.
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Virago
Language
English
Pages
442

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Subjects

World War, 1914-1918, Murder, Veterans, Investigation, Fiction, World war, 1914-1918, fiction, London (england), fiction, Fiction, psychological, Fiction, historical, Veterans, fiction, Crime, fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, historical

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Cover of: The return of Captain John Emmett
The return of Captain John Emmett
2011, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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The return of Captain John Emmett
2011, Virago
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Originally published: 2010.

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London

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Dewey Decimal Class
823.92
Library of Congress
PR6119

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Pagination
442 pages
Number of pages
442

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL28371010M
Internet Archive
returnofcaptainj0000spel
ISBN 10
1844086097
ISBN 13
9781844086092
OCLC/WorldCat
767775258

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Mary Emmett's brother John, an officer during the recently ended World War I, has apparently killed himself while in the care of a remote veterans' hospital, and Mary needs to know why. She contacts an old flame, Laurence Bartram, who has turned his back on the world to help her find answers.

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